>>>>>Someone tried to investigate the origins of this legend, and found that Germans use to do that too. So the guy (a Gastarbeiter in Germany) asked his German neighbor, assuming the Germans must be more tech-savvy, why does he do it. And the neighbor said "well, we saw you Yugos do it, and you guys know all the tricks".
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>>>>This was on MythBusters, and they proved it did work.
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>>>Couldn't find my way around their website... care to share a link?
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>>They have a web site? I guess they would. I saw it on their television show. It was with other anti-radar myths.
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>Took me 20 minutes to google something out - and that's not the story, it's a messageboard among few guys who saw it. And they weren't impressed. It seems to have featured a disco ball, but the guys didn't specifically mention the hanging CD. Generally, they said the show lacked any scientific merit.
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>IMO, the jury's still out. Snopes also has nothing on the matter.

Ok,

But have you ever seen the show. It is not so much a serious show, but a humor one. They appear to take their efforts to prove or disprove urban myths very seriously, but their tactics are funny. I love the ones that involve Buster (their crash dummy). What they put him through should be outlawed.

They are on the Discovery channel.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/episode/episode_04.html


Episode 18: Beat the Radar Detector
Jamie and Adam ... Then the crew tests several speed-radar-busting tricks, including hanging a disco ball from the rearview mirror, covering the car entirely with aluminum foil, and painting the car with flat black paint to scatter the radar's laser beams.
premiere: Oct. 13, 2004


But, as you can see, you are right, they do not mention the CD. I thought it was apart of the tests. Oh well.